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Fort Bragg’s blue whale comes home to the Noyo Headlands

By Roger Coryell

Mendocino County Wildlife

A long blue whale spine is displayed in a room with wooden walls and windows, surrounded by visitors and informational signage.
Guests look over a line of blue whale vertebrae on the floor of the Noyo Center for Marine Science's Whale House LaBONEatory in Fort Bragg, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. The center plans to reassemble the 73-foot skeleton in the building. (Roger Coryell via Bay City News)

A blue whale that died off the Mendocino Coast in 2009 finally has a home.

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